the benefits of section forty-seven hundred and eighty-eight, and shall receive money commutation as therein provided. Act June 17, 1879, c. 132, § 3, 16 Stat. 153. Act Feb. 27, 1877, c. 69, 19 Stat. 252. This section was amended by Act Feb. 27, 1877, c. 69, cited above, by inserting, after the words "war of the rebellion," the words, "or is entitled to the benefits of section forty-seven hundred and eighty-seven," as set forth here. R. S. § 4787, mentioned in this section, authorizing the furnishing of artificial limbs, etc., is set forth ante, § 9120. § 9124. (Act March 3, 1891, c. 542.) Money commutation for artificial limbs, etc.; no fee to agent or attorney. For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus, or commutation therefor, ✶ ✶ and hereafter in case of commutation the money shall be paid directly to the soldier, sailor, or marine, and no fee or compensation shall be allowed or paid to any agent or attorney. (26 Stat. 979.) This was a provision of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year 1892, cited above. Provisions for furnishing artificial limbs to soldiers and sailors were made by R. S. § 4787, as amended by Act March 3, 1891, c. 562, incorporated into that section, ante, § 9120. § 9125. (R. S. § 4791, as amended, Act Feb. 27, 1877, c. 69, § 1.) Transportation for persons to whom artificial limbs are furnished. The Secretary of War is authorized and directed to furnish to the persons embraced by the provisions of section forty-seven hundred and eighty-seven, transportation to and from their homes and the place where they may be required to go to obtain artificial limbs provided for them under authority of law. The transportation allowed for having artificial limbs fitted shall be furnished by the Quartermaster-General of the Army, the cost of which shall be refunded from the appropriations for invalid pensions. Act July 28, 1866, c. 305, 14 Stat. 342; Act Feb. 27, 1877, c. 69, § 1, 19 Stat. 252. This section, as enacted in the Revised Statutes, contained only the first sentence thereof, ending with the words "under authority of law." The further provision, beginning with the words "The transportation allowed," etc., to the end of the section as set forth here, was added by amendment by Act Feb. 27, 1877, c. 69, § 1, cited above. R. S. § 4787, mentioned in this section, authorizing the furnishing of artificial limbs, etc., is set forth ante, § 9120. § 9126. (Act Aug. 15, 1876, c. 300, § 1.) Artificial limbs to soldiers and sailors, when and how furnished or commuted. Every officer, soldier, seaman and marine, who, in the line of duty, in the military or naval service of the United States, shall have lost a limb, or sustained bodily injuries, depriving him of the use of any of his limbs, shall receive once every five years an artificial limb or appliance, or commutation therefor, as provided and limited by existing laws, under such regulations as the Surgeon-General of the Army may prescribe; and the period of five years shall be held to commence with the filing of the first application after the seven teenth day of June, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy. (19 Stat. 203.) This section and the section next following were an act entitled "An act to regulate the issue of artificial limbs to disabled soldiers, seamen, and others." Artificial limbs were to be furnished every three years, by R. S. § 4787, as amended by Act March 3, 1891, c. 562, incorporated into that section, ante, § 9120. This section superseded the provisions of R. S. § 4789, ante, § 9122, for payment of money commutation for artificial limbs, etc., by the Commissioner of Pensions. § 9127. (Act Aug. 15, 1876, c. 300, § 2.) Transportation to be furnished. Necessary transportation to have artificial limbs fitted shall be furnished by the Quartermaster-General of the Army, the cost of which shall be refunded out of any money appropriated for the purchase of artificial limbs: Provided, That this act shall not be subject to the provisions of an act entitled "An act to increase pensions," approved June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventyfour. (19 Stat. 204.) Act June 18, 1874, c. 299, 18 Stat. 78, mentioned in this section, fixed the pensions for the loss of an arm or leg, and provided that no artificial limbs, or commutation therefor, should be furnished to pensioners under the act. It was superseded by Act Aug. 4, 1886, c. 899, ante, § 8960. (4167) TITLE LVIII THE PUBLIC HEALTH This title, as enacted in the Revised Statutes, was not divided into chapters, and contained only provisions for protection of the public health against contagious and infectious diseases by quarantines, etc. In accordance with the change of designation of the former Marine-Hospital Service to the Public Health Service, by Act July 1, 1902, c. 1370, and Act Aug. 14, 1912, c. 288, the provisions relating to that service are placed in chapter A; the provisions of the Revised Statutes originally contained in this Title and subsequent provisions relating to quarantines and sanitation are placed in chaper B; and distinct provisions for the establishment and maintenance of a leprosy hospital and laboratory are placed in chapter C. Sec. CHAPTER A The Public Health Service The former Marine-Hospital Service, for which a Supervising Surgeon-General and commissioned medical officers and other officers and employés were provided by R. S. § 4802, and subsequent acts, was designated the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of the United States, by Act July 1, 1902, c. 1370, and was thereafter designated the Public Health Service, by Act Aug. 14, 1912, c. 288. This chapter includes the provisions relating to the Public Health Service of said Act Aug. 14, 1912, c. 288, and the laws made applicable to said service by that act, which originally pertained to the former Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, and to the previous Marine-Hospital Service, and which remain in force. 9128. Public Health Service; application of former laws; investigations; publications. 9129. Commissioned medical officers, salaries; longevity allowance; maximum pay, employment of help. 9130. Former Supervising Surgeon of former Marine-Hospital Service. 9131. Former Supervising SurgeonGeneral of Marine-Hospital Service; salary; appointment. 9132. Medical officers of former Marine-Hospital Service; appointment after examination. Sec. 9133. Original appointments as first as- 9134. Former Public Health and Ma- 9136. Assistant Surgeons-General; as- 9137. Details from Service for duty in Bureau. 9138. Additional details from Service for duty in Bureau. § 9128. (Act Aug. 14, 1912, c. 288, § 1.) Public Health Service; application of former laws; investigations; publications. The Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of the United States shall hereafter be known and designated as the Public Health Service, and all laws pertaining to the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of the United States shall hereafter apply to the Public Health Service, and all regulations now in force, made in accordance with law for the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of the United States shall apply to and remain in force as regulations of and for the Public Health Service until changed or rescinded. The Public Health Service may study and investigate the diseases of man and conditions influencing the propagation and spread thereof, including sanitation and sewage and the pollution either directly or indirectly of the navigable streams and lakes of the United States, and it may from time to time issue information in the form. of publications for the use of the public. (37 Stat. 309.) This section and the section next following were an act entitled "An act to change the name of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service to the Public Health Service, to increase the pay of officers of said service and for other purposes." The Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of the United States, the designation of which was changed by this section, was so designated by change of the previous designation of Marine-Hospital Service, by Act July 1, 1902, c. 1370, § 1, post, § 9134. By further provisions of said section last mentioned, post, § 9134, the duties required by law to be performed by the Marine-Hospital Service were thereafter to be performed by the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, and all funds, etc., provided for use by, and all properties and rights pertaining to, the Marine-Hospital Service were made available for use by the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service. Provisions originally relating to the Marine-Hospital Service, so made applicable to the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, as well as those enacted for the latter service, so far as they remain in force and applicable, may be regarded as within the provision of this section that all laws pertaining to said service should thereafter apply to the Public Health Service. § 9129. (Act Aug. 14, 1912, c. 288, § 2.) Commissioned medical officers, salaries; longevity allowance; maximum pay; employment of help. Beginning with the first day of October next after the passage of this Act the salaries of the commissioned medical officers of the Public Health Service shall be at the following rates per an num: Surgeon General, six thousand dollars; Assistant Surgeon General, four thousand dollars; senior surgeon, of which there shall be ten in number, on active duty, three thousand five hundred dollars; surgeon, three thousand dollars; passed assistant surgeon, two thousand four hundred dollars; assistant surgeon, two thousand dollars; and the said officers, excepting the Surgeon General, shall receive an additional compensation of ten per centum of the annual salary as above set forth for each five years' service, but not to exceed in all forty per centum: Provided, That the total salary, including the longevity increase, shall not exceed the following rates: Assistant Surgeon General, five thousand dollars; senior surgeon, four thousand five hundred dollars; surgeon, four thousand dollars: Provided further, That there may be employed in the Public Health Service such help as may be provided for from time to time by Congress. (37 Stat. 309.) See notes to preceding section of this act, ante, § 9128. This section superseded previous provisions prescribing the salary of the Surgeon-General and the grades and salaries of commissioned medical officers of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, of Act July 1, 1902, c. 1370, § 1, post, § 9134. § 9130. (R. S. § 4802.) Former Supervising Surgeon of former Marine-Hospital Service. [The Secretary of the Treasury shall, from time to time, appoint a surgeon to act as supervising surgeon of marine-hospital service,] who shall, under the direction of the Secretary, supervise all matters. connected with the marine-hospital service, [and with the disbursement of the fund for the relief of sick and disabled seamen.] [He shall be entitled to a salary of not more than two thousand dollars a year, and to his necessary traveling expenses.] And he shall make monthly reports to the Secretary of the Treasury. Act June 29, 1870, c. 169, § 6, 16 Stat. 170. The first portion of this section, inclosed in brackets, authorizing the appointment of a supervising surgeon by the Secretary of the Treasury, was superseded by the provision for the appointment of the Supervising SurgeonGeneral by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, of Act March 3, 1875, c. 130, § 1, post, § 9131. He was to be known as the SurgeonGeneral, by Act July 1, 1902, c. 1370, § 1, post, § 9134. The further provision of this section, also inclosed in brackets, relating to the disbursement of the fund for relief of sick, etc., seamen, was superseded by the repeal of R. S. §§ 4585-4587, and all other acts and parts of acts providing for the assessment and collection of a hospital tax for seamen, by the shipping Act of June 19, 1886, c. 421, § 15, 24 Stat. 82. The further provision of this section, also inclosed in brackets, relating to the salary of the supervising surgeon, was superseded by subsequent provisions prescribing the salary of the Supervising Surgeon-General and of the Surgeon-General, particularly the provision making the salary of the SurgeonGeneral $6,000, of Act Aug. 14, 1912, c. 288, § 2, ante, § 9129. § 9131. (Act March 3, 1875, c. 130, § 1.) Former Supervising Surgeon-General of Marine-Hospital Service; salary; appointment. Hereafter [the salary of the supervising surgeon-general of the United States marine hospital service shall be paid out of the marine hospital fund, at the rate of four thousand dollars per year; and] the |